commencement
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During a 2024 commencement address to his alma mater at the University of Pennsylvania engineering school, Ternus relayed a story about making the Cinema Display, the first Apple product he worked on a quarter-century ago.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
“I think that the market is actually correctly looking through the commencement of the war,” said Chris Grisanti, chief market strategist and a portfolio manager at MAI Capital Management.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
He added that "lots of stuff has to be done this year in order to enable the actual commencement of building".
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
The chief executive was even booed while delivering a commencement speech at Boston University during the 2023 writer’s strike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Three years after Truman’s staging of Rent—and thirty-six years after my own high school graduation—I was asked to give the commencement speech at Truman High.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Vocabulary lists containing commencement
The Vocabulary of College
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A Graduation Lexicon
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Steve Jobs's Commencement Address (2005)
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